frank

Which was what?

I missed it. Where did you answer why you trust your senses? My use of the geiger counter starts with trusting my senses with regard to the existence ...

If I was like Hanover, I wouldn't trust that I have a Geiger counter in my hand. Is there some reason you can't just answer my question? Why do you tr...

Why do you trust your senses if what they show you may or may not resemble what's in front of you? That is a conundrum, because it can't be both.

1. Some of what you know about the Standard Model is information from your senses. 2. The rest is apriori knowledge. 3, You can't arrive at the Standa...

Why would you believe you actually have a geiger counter in your hand if your perceptions may or may not resemble the object?

Didn't you say that perceptions may or may not bear any resemblance to the object?

I don't think so. It's more like asking why you accept science of any kind if you can't rely on your senses to tell you the truth.

If our perceptions may not bear any resemblance to what's out there, then why believe the science that led you to accept indirect realism?

I used to live in walking distance of a laundry mat, a grocery store, a public tennis court, a bar, and the university.

That's a cool trick the nervous system does. Pain is handled by a special neuron called a nociceptor. People who have chronic pain develop nervous sup...

True.

I was just explaining multiple realizability in case you were interested. 700nm light causes red experiences so often that we call it red light. That'...

Sure. My point was that we have limited understanding of how experience works. It's not as simple as: 700nm frequency causes the experience of red.

I'm guessing you understood me just fine, you're trying to make a point by pretending you didn't?

Right. I don't know what you're talking about with what followed that.

It's a range, but yea.

A pixel that produces the frequency of red. That isn't there either. All kinds of brain states can produce the same experience.

There are no red pixels in that picture. It's an optical illusion. You were talking about correspondence of experience to neural processes. The point ...

They consciously abandoned morality. They believed morality was conditioning from an era that was passing. They wanted to make their world into hell b...

I was criticizing your use of science to support your argument. It's your worldview that says consciousness is confined to brains. Science does not co...

Neuroscience doesn't say anything one way or the other about extension of consciousness. Therefore, if we want to talk about it, we'll have to back do...

It sounds like you're saying that neuroscience shows that human consciousness doesn't extend beyond the brain. It doesn't show that. We don't presentl...

My experience with ending a long term relationship was that I died halfway through it. I'm somebody else now. It was pretty bloody, too, in a poetic w...

The pen has the property of causing the experience of red under certain conditions.

That's how we role.

True. We still can't go beyond our limitations. That's what I thought you were trying to do with talk of what came before Adam's planets.

There's a profound paradox about motion: Xeno's Paradox. A paradox is a sign that we've butted up against the boundaries of the mind. Stay away from t...

The human viewpoint is that gravity did it. The view beyond human ideas is not available to me. That's a favored interpretation of the Tractatus: ther...

No, you need language for physics, don't you?

We're talking past one another. You're focusing on physics. Philosophy aims deeper. Think about the domain of the red percept. It's you, right? Red dw...

Can you wipe it with alcohol first?

I mentioned that. Matching the swatch is using an external standard to pick out the shade. That he would require that, and I think he would, seems to ...

Honestly, I think your attitude is more about posters on this forum than about language philosophy. The damnedest interpretations of Wittgenstein show...

Yea, I don't think that's the whole story.

I'm guessing you're like me. You use ideas, like tree to organize your sensations into something meaningful. Ideas usually go by names which you learn...

You're overlooking the very active role the mind plays in creating experience. You literally can't see the things your mind isn't prepared to see. A f...

My point is that you need both internal and external data to distinguish between colors. That's pretty easy to demonstrate. By the way, the picture yo...

If that was true you would have easily been able to pick them out in the apple picture. You need an external crutch to distinguish between them.

You just demonstrated that it's both. You see the shades of red, but you can't distinguish between them without an external crutch.

Yea, but you could do what you claimed, distinguish between the different shades, if you had words, like burgundy, cadmium red, cadmium red light, etc...

Without looking at your sample, identity each of those shades in this picture... without any words. https://www.supermart.ng/cdn/shop/files/spmt1062.j...

I think Witt's point would be that cognition is heavily influenced by language, which in turn reflects history, culture, and biology. Lacan says somet...

Commonly believed, no reason to doubt it.

Placing tariffs causes tariff wars. That's partly how the Great Depression started. That did redistribute wealth, but not for long.

In the case of sensation, it's that common biology gives us similar experiences of redness and pain.

Tariffs?

I used to think in those terms too: property tax on the wealthy. Now I'd say there's just no way to do that. I'm presently reading a book about the ea...

Looks like she has a good chance of winning. Whodda thunk it?

Cool, but I meant someone who doesn't need a color sample to create a particular hue, like China red.